A canny reader dropped me a line after attending the Mind over Matter training I hosted last week:

(which was all about how to turn down our mental chatter)

What really resonated with me was that some of the thought patterns we have that have been around for years started with a single thought that we didn’t have to believe in.

That created a lot of space and choice in my head, which felt empowering.

There’s a lot of truth in this.

It made me think of the Robert Louis Stevenson quote:

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

To which I say:

Don’t forget about the watering can!

Planting the seed of a thought is just the start.  It takes watering, tending & attention for that seed to start blooming into life.

Maybe even some fertiliser and a garden trowel.

(am I pushing the metaphor too far?)

Whatever the case, it can be quite the eye-opener to see how it’s the act of watering itself which takes the seed of a thought and quite literally brings that thought to life. 

Ditto for the attention we give to a thought or the conditions we create to allow that thought seed to grow.

And some problems, worries & doubts can wilt like an unwatered flower and disappear in a puff of pollen when we spot how our own thinking and thinking about our thinking is the very thing which is creating that problem, worry or doubt in the first place.

My green fingered friends take note.

I talked more about this whole idea during the Mind over Matter training.

The good news is I made a recording of the webinar for those who couldn’t make it. 

Bad news is I’ll probably take it down after a couple of days.

So if you’d like to check out the recording, hit reply and I’ll send the link straight over.

That’s all for today.

 - Tom